Did legal battle block premiere of Emma Thompson's period drama Effie Gray?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477592/Did-legal-battle-block-premiere-Emma-Thompsons-period-drama-Effie-Gray.html

Effie Gray film update

Probably the biggest surprise at the festival this year came, unfortunately, when the planned Spotlight evening with headliner Dakota Fanning was cancelled at the 11th hour. (We didn't realize she was part of the government shutdown.) No official word as to why. However, our spies inform us the production company Sovereign Films pulled Fanning's showcase Effie Gray, the story of an infamous love triangle in Victorian times, due to a series of screenplay copyright infringement claims by other writers. Effie Gray scriptwriter-actress Emma Thompson had already beat back charges by Eve Pomerance, author of two scripts on the same subject, one of which had been produced as a play. Another copyright dispute, launched by playwright Gregory Murphy, also the author of a play and screenplay on the same topic, was decided in Thompson's favor in March, but Murphy is appealing and, according to our sources, was able to initiate legal action to bar the screening of the film. . .

http://www.pacificsun.com/marin_a_and_e/film/article_cb95260e-3695-11e3-9cd6-001a4bcf6878.html

Effie in 1850 by Ruskin

Effie paperback book

The paperback 'Effie' book just released
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and John Everett Millais
Suzanne Fagence Cooper 

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (19 April 2012)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Effie-Passionate-Ruskin-Everett-Millais/dp/0715641441/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336227855&sr=1-7

Another still from Effie

New still from the forth coming film Effie
Now due for release this June
Still shows Claudia Cardinale, Dakota Fanning (with fabulous costumes)
Julia Walters plays Margaret Ruskin and the cast list includes Derek Jacobi, Robbie Coltrane and David Suchet.

Effie Gray 1850's

More pictures of Dakota Fanning as Effie are emerging

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120103/us-britain-film-effie/

Dakota Fanning looks every inch the young Victorian beauty as she shoots her new period film Effie

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2070028/Dakota-Fanning-transforms-young-Victorian-beauty-shoots-new-period-film-Effie.html

Effie and the Foxgloves

In 1853 Millais painted Effie with Foxgloves which depicts her wearing the flowers while doing needlework.
I didn't realise the symbolism of this.
While in Scotland with Ruskin (still her husband) and Millais, she gathered foxgloves to place in her hair. She wore them at breakfast despite being asked by her husband not to do so, a gesture of defiance, at a time of growing crisis in their relationship, that came to the critical notice of Florence Nightingale.

Suzanne Fagence Cooper (2010) The Model Wife: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais. Florence Nightingale's observations regarding the foxgloves are noted in correspondence of her friend, the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, whose acquaintance with Effie Ruskin dated back to their schooldays.

Millais, Ruskin, and the love triangle which tore apart the pre-Raphaelites

[the Gray family with Millais]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/millais-ruskin-and-the-love-triangle-which-tore-apart-the-preraphaelites-449501.html

Pre-Raphaelites in Love: Millias, Effie Gray and John Ruskin

http://scandalouswoman.blogspot.com/2009/11/pre-raphaelites-in-love-millias-effie.html

The conversation is continued on

http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-ruskin-jmw-turner-and-unpleasant.html

Effie with Foxgloves in Her Hair 1853

Victorian Goddesses, a Real Wife and a Sour Marriage

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/books/suzanne-fagence-coopers-biography-of-effie-gray-review.html?_r=1

A poster for the play Mrs Ruskin

Emma Thompson's Effie

[ http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1906p604/effie-ruskin-wearing-a-dress-decorated-with-natural-ornament/ ]

What a great film this will be - if finally made

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/feb/09/emma-thompson-effie-copywright

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/3137506/Emma-Thompson-and-Greg-Wises-portrait-of-a-passionless-marriage.html

This is the latest news back in March - can't find news since then

http://thefilmstage.com/2010/03/15/carey-mulligan-to-begin-production-in-emma-thompsons-effie/

Effie Gray’s Revenge blog post

http://artmodel.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/effie-grays-revenge/

Portrait of Effie with Foxgloves in her Hair (The Foxglove) after Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) (England, 1853)

http://www.leicestergalleries.com/19th-20th-century-paintings/d/pre-raphaelite/euphemia-effie-chalmers-ruskin-n%c3%83%c2%89e-gray-later-lady-millais/15836

'Nell Gwynne' (Effie Gray James (née Millais))

by Rupert Potter
albumen print, 7 June 1882
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ss&firstRun=true&sText=millais&LinkID=mp89637&rNo=0&role=sit

Breaking the Ties that Bind: Ruskin, the Divorce from Effie, and the Theory of Perfidious Elites (article)

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/spates.html

Effie

http://preraphaelites.net/effieruskin.html